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Using twitteR to see, what german press secretary tweets about

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Which device does he use?

Mr. Seibert seems to love his iPad: The vast majority of tweets are issued by the iPad-App of twitter….

Analysis of frequency

The tweets are summarized by day, and the bars show the amount of tweets per day

There were some heavy days in mid-March and beginning of May, with over 40 tweets per day

Normal “twee-rate” seems to be between 3 and 10 per day

There are even some “idle” days, where he did not tweet at all – holidays?

At what time of day is he tweeting?

The left schart shows on which hours of the day Mr Seibert is tweeting. Clearly, there is less activity between 0 and 6 o’clock.

The righ chart shows this more clearly: Most tweets happen between 10:00 and 14:00. Then it is lunchbreak, and around 16:00 Mr Seibert get’s up to speed again, before his tweeting activity decays. Only at 20:00, there is another small spike. But the afternoon activity is not as pronounced as the morning activity.